VRScout
MARCH 28, 2023
Catch a glimpse of the other side with this immersive art installation. What happens after you die? It’s a question as old as time and one that artist Shaun Gladwell is committed to answering. This week the Australian-based creative debuted an immersive art piece at the Melbourne Now event that’s designed to simulate what it’s like to pass on to the other side.
ARPost
MARCH 28, 2023
Spatial started out as an enterprise remote collaboration solution. Then, it changed lanes to offer virtual worlds for consumer social uses. Now, it could become an immersive gaming platform. At least, in part. A Look at the Toolkit The new “ Spatial Creator Toolkit ” is a Unity-powered interface that allows users to create custom avatars, items, and “quests.
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VRScout
MARCH 28, 2023
Rokid adds yet another addition to its lineup of portable AR hardware. Rokid, a human-computer interaction technology company, is back with yet another pair of advanced augmented reality (AR) glasses that could replace your current home theater setup. Rokid Max offers a 50% larger display area than the Rokid Air, the company’s previous AR glasses released last year.
AR Insider
MARCH 28, 2023
Spatial computing – including AR, VR, and other immersive tech – continues to alter the ways that we work, play, and live. But there have… Continue reading → Where Are We in XR’s Lifecycle? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.
Upload VR
MARCH 28, 2023
Meta released a Haptics SDK for Unity, and Haptic Studio for authoring haptics. These tools appear to be the result of Meta’s acquisition of the German startup Lofelt last year, as we speculated at the time of the acquisition. Lofelt offered a haptics SDK for Unity and its flagship product was a haptics authoring tool called Lofelt Studio. Haptics Studio Haptics Studio is a desktop app for Windows and macOS with a VR companion app for Quest headsets.
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Upload VR
MARCH 28, 2023
The v51 Quest system software update adds local dimming to Link mode on Quest Pro. Most LCD panels have at most a few LEDs backlighting the entire display, severely limiting the contrast between dark and bright regions. You’ve probably noticed they show dark grey instead of true black. In VR this notably hampers the visual believability of virtual nighttime and experiences set in space.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MARCH 28, 2023
Concerns are mounting in the technology landscape. After a phenomenal period of growth, prompted by the acceleration of digital transformation during the pandemic, countless brands have suddenly encountered budget cuts, dips in funding, and supply chain issues. The result has been an increase in the number of layoffs throughout the technology space.
Upload VR
MARCH 28, 2023
Fast Travel Games are planning new post-launch content for Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game, as a new patch adds minor bug fixes today on Quest 2. Following its launch last week, Fast Travel Games released a minor update for Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game. Patch 1.0.1 added small fixes like stopping a soft lock bug during the research tutorial, stopping the Chimera boss spawning twice, and an updated credits list.
Anand Tech
MARCH 28, 2023
JOLED, a Japan-based producer of OLED panels and displays, said it had applied for bankruptcy protection at the Tokyo District Court, citing total liabilities of ¥33.7 billion ($257 million). It also supplied OLED displays for Apple's smartwatches. The company will transfer its patents and R&D operations to Japan Display Inc and will shut down its manufacturing, affecting makers of high-end OLED-based displays and TVs, including Asus , Eizo , LG, and Sony.
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With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.
VRPlayin
MARCH 28, 2023
You’ve been given the duty of organizing a team event; where do you start? Sadly, the days of the human knot are long gone, thus there are many aspects that go into organizing a great event with meaningful team building activities. To put things in perspective, the human knot is when a group of individuals are in immediate contact and holding hands.
The AR Show
MARCH 28, 2023
Ohto Pentikäinen and Jamin Hu are the co-founders of Port 6, a company creating human-computer interaction technologies which are initially focused on detecting the moment of touching an object. Ohto is a serial entrepreneur having been a co-founder and CEO twice by the age of 20 before co-founding Port 6. His earliest venture was reimagining the highschool learning experience by creating a platform for multidisciplinary, self-directed learning.
CraneMorley
MARCH 28, 2023
Back to Blog Page Trenching and excavating is one of the if not the most dangerous job in construction. If not done properly cave-ins or collapsed trenches can happen. This unfortunate scenario is the leading cause of death in construction. Dangerous trenching and excavating tasks are necessary jobs as everything else on the construction site depends on this to build the foundation.
VRGames
MARCH 28, 2023
Sony Pictures VR and HOLOGATE have teamed up to bring the Ghostbusters experience to life in a new virtual reality location-based game available now at over 450 HOLOGATE locations worldwide. Now you can strap on your Proton Pack, join forces with friends, and battle supernatural entities while training to become an official Ghostbuster!
Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon
Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.
Anand Tech
MARCH 28, 2023
Kingston Fury, the gaming and high-performance division of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., has expanded the aesthetics of the company's Fury DDR5 memory portfolio. The Fury Beast and Fury Renegade DDR5 memory lineups now arrive with a white heat spreader design. As a result, consumers of both AMD and Intel platforms can take advantage of the new memory kits when putting together a PC with a white theme.
VRGames
MARCH 28, 2023
Spring is here and the anticipation of warmer weather has everyone excited for outdoor activities. Unfortunately, the pandemic has put a hold on many activities that would normally be enjoyed this season such as going to the gym or group exercise classes.
Upload VR
MARCH 28, 2023
Seven years after the release of Vertigo, the sequel is now available for PC VR headsets. Vertigo 2 features an expansive campaign with witty writing, fantastic mechanics and endlessly creative gameplay. Read on for our full Vertigo 2 PC VR review. When Vertigo released in 2016, virtual reality was in a very different place. While the indie VR release proudly wore its Half-Life inspirations on its sleeve, Valve itself had yet to release a flagship VR title.
VRGames
MARCH 28, 2023
The popular VR MMO Zenith is discontinuing support for the original Quest and PlayStation VR headsets, meaning owners will no longer be part of the larger community. To best serve its vast majority of users however, new hardware has been brought in such as Quest 2 Pro and SteamVR.
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
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